{"product_id":"brown-trans-figurations-9781477322123","title":"Brown Trans Figurations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the National Women’s Studies Association''s 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 John Leo \u0026amp; Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular Culture Association\u003cbr\u003e The Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL\/Q Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA)\u003cbr\u003e 2022 AAHHE Book of the Year Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eBrown Trans Figurations\u003c\/i\u003e'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [\u003ci\u003eBrown Trans Figurations\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown Trans Figurations\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina\/o\/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...\u003ci\u003eBrown Trans Figurations\u003c\/i\u003e is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina\/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *\u003cbr\u003eEveryone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, \u0026amp; Inclusion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana\/x Butch and Chicano\/x FTM Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Reading with the X\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408958169431,"sku":"9781477322123","price":78.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477322123.jpg?v=1730504860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brown-trans-figurations-9781477322123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}